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HEASARC Picture of the Week: Transients




Title Date
X-ray Afterglow of a Gamma-Ray Burst: The Grail Found? GRB 970228 Dec 27, 1999
Variations in the X-ray Sky ASM movie Frame Feb 7, 2000
Pinpointing an Elusive Burst GRB 990510 September 11, 2000
GRB Wrinkles Ironed Out? Chandra/GRB 991216 November 6, 2000
The Bursting Universe BATSE burst map January 22, 2001
Best Looking Burst CHANDRA/GRB010222 April 9, 2001
Caught in the Act GRB011211/XMM-Newton February 25, 2002
Death of a Faraway Star SN2002ap/XMM March 11, 2002
Post-mortem of a Monster's Death GRB 011211 spectrum April 8, 2002
Chasing the Wild Burst GRB 020819-HET2 & IPN August 26, 2002
The Magnetic Connection AXP X-ray burst September 30, 2002
In Real Time HETE2 GRB 021004 localization October 7, 2002
Escape from a Black Hole X-ray Jet from XTEJ1550-564 October 21, 2002
INTEGRAL Spots a Burst IBIS Burst Image January 20, 2003
Busy Month of Bursts GRB Precusors? March 31, 2003
Flashers X-ray Transients in NGC 1637 November 3, 2003
Fog Lights GRB halo February 2, 2004
Cosmic Chrysanthemum Illustration of GRB 020813 July 5, 2004
First BAT Burst First BAT GRB January 17, 2005
Shaking the Fields Extremely Bright Burst from a Magnetar February 21, 2005
The Grail's Host Host galaxy of GRB970228 April 18, 2005
When Stars Collide Artist conception of a neutron star merger May 23, 2005
Long Ago and Far Away Afterglow of GRB 050904 September 19, 2005
Unraveling the Short-Burst Mystery Location of GRB 050709 October 10, 2005
Land of the SuperGiants INTEGRAL SXRB transient December 12, 2005
Oddball GRB Swift Oddball GRB March 6, 2006
The Long and the Short of It Swift hybrid GRB January 8, 2007
Twenty Years in the Making HST/Chandra images of SN 1987a February 26, 2007
Does 2006gy = 2007 Eta Car? IR and X-ray images of SN 2006gy May 14, 2007
Fireworks Swift/UVOT image of double supernovae July 2, 2007
Homeless Homeless Burst January 7, 2008
SN X-ray Progenitor? SN Type Ia Progenitor? February 18, 2008
Home of the Whopper? Swift Detection of naked-eye GRB March 24,o 2008
In Memoriam Swift image of SN 2008D May 26, 2008
Stumbled Upon Nova XMM-Newton Slew Nova August 4, 2008
It's Here! GBM GRB August 25, 2008
Far and Away Farthest Burst September 22, 2008



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Each week the HEASARC scours the archive of X-ray and Gamma Ray observations to bring you new, exciting and beautiful images. Check back each week and be sure to check out the archive!

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